South-America … praise for the ALM Rangers!

At TechReady, Ricardo Jimenez praised the ALM Rangers who supported him and the community at the “Evento Virtual” (virtual event) in the Latin American region (Caribbean, Central America, Bolivia, Paraguay, Ecuador). It is a real pleasure receiving this type of feedback and demonstrates that the ALM Rangers strive for teamwork and collaboration in all regions of the world ALM Rangers, “You Rock”!

He will be speaking about TFS 2012 at the Space Coast .NET User Group (Melbourne, Florida) on August 14th. And again at the Southwest Florida Code Camp on September 12th: http://codecamp.swfldev.net/Home/Speakers.

Publications

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ECOSYSTEM NEWS

Scrub | Recognition Process

The scrub and recognition process is complete. We thank everyone for their candid feedback and for raising all the new process gremlins and anomalies. The ALM Rangers family can be perused here and is currently stabilizing at 180 active ALM Rangers.

ALM Rangers “Ruck” Training

Our Ruck Master Brian Blackman delivered a phenomenal ChalkTalk and Instructor Led Lab (ILL) session at TR15. The ILL had an average score of 4.88/5 and was #1 in the Dev Track. WELL DONE Brian!

Watch the space from Brian Blackman in terms of the ALM Rangers Ruck training, which will be mandatory for all ALM Ranger project leads and highly recommended for all ALM Rangers.

UserVoice

Please start using these UserVoice channels, else your “voice” will not be heard:

ACTIONS

ASK #1 – Quotes anyone?

As always we would appreciate quotes from you or your communities in terms of the ALM Ranger solutions. Good news and positive quotes are invaluable!

ASK #2 – Pictures anyone?

For the upgrade and planning project session I would appreciate if you can send me pictures we can use that show installations / environments that could probably have used a bit more planning … again a picture speaks a thousand words.

ASK #3 – Tell us about your successes!

One thing we love is celebrating your successes. Unfortunately not being omniscient we simply don’t know about many of them. So if you have done or know of some outstanding contributions/actions please send them to Chuck and Willy to post in our internal newsletters that go to our upper management and the MVP leads.